Comment Re:Good! (Score 5, Insightful) 938
You're right, because no passengers should be allowed to talk on the phone either....
Comment Does anyone even remember The Matrix anymore? (Score 4, Informative) 103
seriously: my wife teaches high schoolers, she made a comment about The Matrix and got a whole room of stares in response. 1999 was 12 years ago...
Comment Re:What's the advantage? (Score 1) 106
Seriously. It is difficult to express in words just how inefficient XMPP is as a protocol -- and this will be even worse! Sure, it's not a big deal on the client side, but real-world XMPP servers spend a substantial amount of time just parsing XML stanzas...and this would be a worst-case for them. Wow.
Comment Congratulations to Turbine (Score 1) 57
it's been a long and storied run
Comment Re:sensationalism (Score 1) 587
Yes, for long-running servers, GC performance can still be a very big issue with Java (and all GC languages). For short- or medium-lived apps (the kind that you're more thinking about -- since you talk about VM and library load time) GC performance is less of an issue.
Submission + - Spin Your Electric Meter Backwards
Dennis Sweatt writes: "How Energy from the Sun Can Improve Your Cash Flow:
Return on Investment.
A large portion of the cost of a residential system is offset by state rebates and federal tax credits. In addition, installing a solar electric system increases the value of your home up to 8%.
How It Works:
The solar rebate system in California comes under a program known as the Emerging Renewables Program. Through this program, utility companies in California provide rebate programs for solar, fuel cell and wind power systems used on residences.
Power Without Maintenance:
Solar cells perform the conversion without moving parts, noise, pollution, radiation or maintenance. The special properties of semiconductor materials make this conversion possible.
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Submission + - NASA Finds New Evidence of Sun-Climate Connection
CorSci81 writes: Climate scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech recently published findings providing a much clearer link between short-term climate oscillations and solar activity. The article itself is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (subscription required, preprint available here) but NASA has a summary of the paper here. This research is particularly interesting because it relies on highly accurate Egyptian records of auroras and Nile water levels spanning 622-1470 AD, making it much more detailed than other more indirect methods (such as ice cores). These results will hopefully shed light on the role of the sun in the current warming trend as they are incorporated into future climate models and theories.
